Articles from August 2003
Women Who Wrock
Anna Sandfield is delighted to find an internet radio station broadcasting music by female artists and woman-fronted bands.
Anna Sandfield // 20 August 2003
Categories: Music
Not all girls (want to) go to Fendi paradise
In a recent Sunday Times article, Naomi Wolf joined the ranks of those claiming Sex and City is a ground-breaking neo-feminist epic. Alexandra Kokoli discusses Wolf's article and questions whether all that shoe shopping is really as liberating as it appears to be.
Alexandra M Kokoli // 20 August 2003
Categories: Television
It's rude to point: blame culture's easy way out
New crime statistics show that reports of rape are on the increase - yet the conviction rate remains pitifully low. Why, asks Carter-Ann Mahdavi, are the female victims still being blamed, and the actions of male rapists ignored?
Carter-Ann Mahdavi // 19 August 2003
Categories: Culture and Media, Violence
Driven to Distraction
Men assume that women know nothing about cars, but increasingly these days they couldn't be more wrong. Lorraine Smith insists she, and many other women, know a lot more about cars than the colour.
Lorraine Smith // 19 August 2003
Categories: Work and Play
Rankin and Bailey Down Under
Where do we locate female sexuality? Pin-ups? Pussies? Tamlyn Monson explains how a somewhat ill-conceived exhibition by two male photographers yields an inadvertent answer.
Tamlyn Monson // 19 August 2003
Categories: Events
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
The Harry Potter series is incredibly popular with children and adults alike. Beth Anderson is also a fan, but she wonders what messages the most recent book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, is sending about the role of boys and girls (and men and women). Is the magical world created by J.K Rowling as limited by stereotypes as ours?
Beth Anderson // 16 August 2003
Categories: Books
News roundup for August 2003
A round up of the months news, compiled by Sara Vali
Sara Vali // 16 August 2003
Categories: News
